Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21005, Job Drew, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Drew, Job Thankful Delano
N 21005
CONTENTS
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10.128.
Massachusetts
Job Drew
of Halifax in the State of Me who was a Sergt in the company commanded by Captain  of the reg t commanded by Col Cutter in the Sp rs une for 9 Mo s
Mile
89 Phym o
Inscribed on the Roll of Sp rs at the rate of 45 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Jan 1833 and sent I 76 Sond Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Jan 1833 $90 00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept " 22 50
$112 50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S H Sp rs Clerk, Book 80 Vol. 2 nd Page 16

Massachusetts 1440
Thankful H. Hrew
of Plymouth in the State of Mass
who was a Mass in the commanded
by Captain of the  commanded
by in the
time for widow of Job Brewster late a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 45 Dollars Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Amt
1.00 March 1833 to be deducted
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Oct.
1836 and sent Decr 14.
Lady Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $247.57
Semi-ant. allowance ending April 37 22.57
$270.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. H. Gaddison Clerk
Book Vol.  Page 48

I hereby certify that it appears from the Records of the town of Kingston that Job Drew & Thankful Delano Prince both of Kingston were lawfully joined in marriage by the Rev d William Rand on the twenty first day of May A. D. 1767. Kingston September 15 th 1836. Joseph Sampson, Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
PLYM o ss. September 15. 1836. Then Joseph Sampson personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said County and made oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him made & signed and I certify said Sampson to be a credible person. THOMAS P. REED, Justice of the Peace

7799
Job Drew
Supt 9 Months
Allam
$4500
J H Lord Plymouth Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  Job Drew.  of Halifax — in the State of Mass.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Eighty eight years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     enlisted In 1775 aft — 8 — Serg t Gen. Capt P. Wadsworth, Col Collins   — 1 — Serg t Capt Washburn, Col Gray  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hingston.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? two persons testify to traditional evidence  Nathaniel Thomas proxy S. info same as Serg t  Beldad Washburn proxy the Serg t same also.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
AKuh Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of September 1836 personally appeared before the Hon. Willis Wood Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Plymouth Thankful D. Drew a resident of Kingston in said County aged Eighty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of an Act of Congress passed July 4 1836.
That she is the widow of Job Drew late of Halifax in said County deceased who was a Sergeant in the Militia for the term of eight months at Roxbury & Dorchester in 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt Peleg Washburn and that he also served one month as a Sergeant in Capt Washburns Company at Rhode Island, for which said several services her said husband the said Job Drew was a pensioner under the Act of Congress June 7. 1832
She further declares that she was married to the said Job Drew on the twenty first day of May in the year seventeen hundred &

sixty seven; that her husband the aforesaid Job Drew died on the fusteen th day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty three - - - and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto an- nexed.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me & I hereby certify that said Thankful D. Drew is a credible person & that by reason of advanced age & bodily infirmity she is unable to travel to attend Court
Thankful D Drew
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written before me & I hereby certify that said Thankful D. Drew is a credible person & that by reason of advan- ced age & bodily infirmity she is unable to travel to attend Court.
Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth

Plymouth Y. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the Hon. Willis Wood is Judge of Probate for said Coun- ty & that the signature to the annexed paper purporting to be his is his true & genuine handwriting.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this seventeenth day of September A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord

No 84
REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twentieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Job Drown a resident of Halifax in said County of Plymouth, and Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquish- es every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That in April 1775 he enlisted in the company under command of Capt. Peleg Wadsworth, Lieut. Setch Drown, and Joseph Dampson, Ensign, this was immediately after the battle of Lexington. After said enlist- ment the company remained with other companies a few weeks at Plymouth under command of Lt. Col. Alden, and then went and joined the Regiment at Dorchester and Roxbury. Said company was enlisted for eight months, and the Declarant served said eight months in said company, and belonged to Col. Colton's Regiment. That he was a sergeant in 1 st Company
That in the year he enlisted in the company under command of Capt. Washburn, Robert Cook, Lieutenant, belonging to Col. John Gray's regiment on an expedition to Bristol, Rhode Island, in consequence

of the enemy firing on that town, and there he served one month and was present in 1 st company.
And the Declarant says, that in the above enlistments he served the full term of nine months in the Militia, and never had a written discharge. That he was born in King- ston in said County in the year 1744, and lived in said Kingston at the time of the above services and that his birth is on the records of that town, as he believes. That he is known to the inhabitants of Kingston and Halifax generally, and especially to Thomas R. Beal of Kingston and John D. Thomas of Plymouth Clerk of the County who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services, and that he never had a discharge.
Feb 6 D r 1767
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest Jacob H. Lord Register

We, Asa Thompson  a clergyman , residing in the town of Halifax and Seth Allen residing in the the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Job Drew who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest J. H. Loud, Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Asa Thompson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman , resident in the town of Halifax and that Seth Allen who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest Jacob H. Loud Register
I, Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Drew for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Jacob H. Loud

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21.005
Thankful D. Drew widow of Job Drew Sergt Rev War
Act June 1 th 32
Index: Vol 01 , Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thankful D. Drew mid. of Feb Drew Maps.
Admit a Japanese 9 m th — $45. commencing
J. H. Lord Plymouth Maps.

Probate Office Flynn Mass. ts Sept 20. 1836
Sir
Enclose the application of Thankful D. Drew the widow of Job Drew for a Pension Yours &c
J. H. Lord Register

This claim is admitted for $475 per ann. It has not been ascertained from the audit, to what time Mr Breckenridge paid
and H. H. G. M c Adams 16 March 1823 at Westfield

I Sylvia Drew of Kingston Plymouth County widow do testify and say that I am seventy years of age - that Thomas Drew, who resided in said Kingston, deceased, is my sister, that as long ago as I can remember and during all the Revolutionary war and ever since till three years ago last March she was the wife of Robt Drew late of Halifax in said County, that since the decease of her said husband, she, the said Thomas Drew has resided in this Town with her son in law whose dwelling is only a few rods from mine, and I further testify that Thomas Drew who signed & swore to a declaration before Judge Wood on the fifteenth of this month setting forth the fact of her being the mother of Robt Drew is the identical person who was the wife and is now the widow of said Robt Drew, who I well remember was absent from home as a soldier in service during the Revolutionary war. Kingston Sep 19. A.D. 1836 - Sylvia Drew

I John Thomas of Kingston in Rlyne County depose & say - that I am seventy years of age - that from my earliest years I have always knew Rebecca Dabrown late of Halifax in this County formerly in house kept up the Town and his wife Thankful that I went to school to said Thankful & drew before the Revd. William Dyer condemned when I was a small child and to my certain knowledge she con- tinued to live with said Robt Drown as his wife till about three years ago, and that since his death she has resided in this Town at her son's in order - and I further tes- tify that I knew said Robt Drown to be a soldier in the Continental service at Roxbury in the State during the Revolutionary war, for

during a part of the time while the army was stationed round Boston & resided in Roxbury with my father who was Genl. John Thomas of the Continental Army - Kingston Jp. 19. 1836
John Thomas
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Jp September 19 th A. D. 1836
Then personally appeared before me One of the parties of the cause in and for said County Sylvia Dren & John Thomas, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by them signed respectively, and I certify that said Sylvia Dren & John Thomas are well known to me as persons of truth & integrity -
Thomas P. Dyer

I Thomas P. Beal of Kingston in the County of Plymouth, Counsellor at Law, of lawful age to give evidence, on oath declare & say that I was Executor of the last Will & Testament of Job Drew late of Halifax, in said County deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution & a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. I well know his Widow Thankful D. Drew who now resides in said Kingston & also know that she has not been married since the decease of her said husband the aforesaid Job Drew.
THOMAS P. BEAL
Plymouth Jp. Sept 20. 1836. Then the above named Thos. P. Beal personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed. Before me & I certify that he is a credible person.
C. J. Wolmer Jus Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Thomas P. Beal & Charles J. Holmes are both Justices of the Peace in & for said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified & that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be theirs are their true & genuine signatures
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this twentieth day of September A.D. 1836
Jacob H. Lord

I Bildead Washburn of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of sixty nine years testify and say, that I was a Drummer  Soldier in the company under command of Capt. Relis Wadsworth in 1775, and served in the same as drummer eight months, a few weeks at Plymouth and the remainder of the time in Dorchester & Roxbury. I further testify and say, that Job Drew of Kingston, now of Halifax, was a sergeant in said company, and served in said company. I have always known said Job Drew. ————— Bildead Washburn
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
13 th Aug. 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Bildead Washburn, and made oath that this Deposition by him subscribed is true, and that further said Deposition is well known to me, and is a credible Witness.
Wm. Thomas, Justice of the Peace and Commissioner, appointed by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Mass. Dist. to take Depositions in all cases, in which Depositions may be used in said Court.

I Nathaniel Thomas of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of seventy six years, testify and say, that I was a Soldier in 1775 in the Company under command of Capt. Nels Wadsworth, belonging to Col. Patton's Regiment of Militia, and that said company was enlisted for eight months, and served said eight months at Plymouth, Dorchester & Roxbury. I further testify and say, that Col. Dyer of Kingston, now of Halifax, and an applicant for a Pension, was the Sergeant in said company - and served the full period of eight months in the same. Nathaniel Thomas
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
13 th Aug. 1832 - Then personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Thomas, and made oath, that this Deposition by him subscribed is true - and I further certify, that said Deponent is well known to me, and is a credible Witness.
Wm. Thomas, Justice of the Peace, and Commissioner, appointed by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Mass. Dist. to take Depositions in all cases, in which Depositions may be used in said Court.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that
Wm Thomas Esq is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twentieth day of August in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two Jacob H. Lord